Museum Theatre as an Educational Tool: Examples in Serbian Museums
Keywords:
museum theatre, drama play, education, creative drama, visitors
Abstract
The paper presents museum theatre as an interpretive tool, its theoretical framework, developmental origins, the use of drama in museums in the 20th and 21st centuries, and its pedagogical outcomes. A section of the paper is dedicated to the use of creative drama in museums and its role as an educational model for working with children and young people. Museum performances created in the last ten years in the Matica Srpska Gallery, the Pavle Beljanski Memorial Collection, the Belgrade City Museum, the Kikinda National Museum, the Museum of Vojvodina, and the House of Jevrem Grujić will be mentioned.
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Fasoi, E. (2016). Museum Theater Techniques in Greek Museum Spaces: An Extensive Approach Based on Contemporary Art Exhibitions (Doctoral Thesis). Patras: University of Patras.
Hughes, C. (1998). Museum Theatre: Communicating with Visitors Through Drama. Portsmouth: Heinemann.
Hughes, C. (2008). Performance for Learning: How emotions play a part. Ohio State University, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center.
Jackson, A. (2011). Participatory Forms of Educational Theatre. Manchester: The Centre of Applied Theatre Research, University of Manchester.
Jjarrah, H. Y. (2019). The Impact of Using Drama in Education on Life Skills and Reflective Thinking. International Journal of Emerging Technologies in Learning (iJET), 14(9), 4–20.
Kidd, J. (2007). Filling the Gaps? Interpreting Museum Collections Through Performance. Journal of Museum Ethnography 19, 57–69.
Kiurski, D. (2020). Muzejski teatar u službi razvoja identiteta mladih. Studija slučaja predstave o životu Melanije Gajčić. Habilitacioni rad za sticanje zvanja viši kustos. Beograd: Narodni muzej u Beogradu, 96.
Kovács, G. (2014). Applied Drama and Theatre – Drama Techniques in Teaching English for Specific Purposes. In Acta Universitatis Sapientiae, Philologica, 6(3), 391–409.
Mages, W. K. (2016). Educational Drama and Theatre Paradigms for Understanding and Engagement. Open Online Journal for Research and Education, 5 Special Issue, 1–9.
Maure, M. (1995). The exhibition as theatre - on the staging of museum objects. Nordisk Museologi 2, 155–168.
Studart, C. D. (1995). To act or not to act the use of drama in museum live interpretation programmes. London: University of London.
Published
2022-08-31
How to Cite
Kiurski D. (2022). Museum Theatre as an Educational Tool: Examples in Serbian Museums. Journal of Elementary Education, 15(Spec.Iss), 77-91. https://doi.org/10.18690/rei.15.Spec.Iss.77-91.2022
Section
Scientific Articles
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